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Global Green Telecom Summit (Dubai) 2009
Workshop Specification

Workshop Title

Reducing remote basestation diesel consumption with effective renewable energy solutions

Led by: PowerOasis

Workshop Agenda

This workshop will explain the options available to reduce dependency on diesel fuel, a significant opex item for most operators, through the use of renewable energy and optimised generator management. By the end of the workshop delegates will be able to understand the off-grid power landscape and identify the key information required to build business cases that result in effective deployments with compelling returns on investment.

The workshop will cover:

• The business case for supplementing or replacing diesel generators with renewable power.
• Improving the return on investment of renewable power deployments by reducing site power loads.
• Defining a systematic approach to dramatically reduce network-wide diesel consumption.
• Typical solution configurations and the interoperation of renewable energy, generators and batteries.
• Why the telcoms environment has traditionally resulted in reduced generator and battery service life.
• The critical success factors that will maximise the profitability of renewable power deployments.

Company Description

As telecoms operators seek the next 2bn subscribers over the next five years, their focus is shifting to developing markets where 90% of new subscribers will be added according to Pyramid Research. Network build-out programmes in these markets have highlighted the critical issue of sourcing reliable carrier-class power in areas where grid connections are often unavailable or unreliable and where remote sites are hard to access. There is now a clear and growing business case for the use of renewable power on many of these remote sites.

Possessing a unique combination of expertise in renewable energy and mobile telecommunications, PowerOasis provides products and services that reduce diesel consumption for remote basestations by supplementing or replacing diesel generators with wind and/or solar renewable energy.

The company specifically addresses three critical elements required for successful deployment and operation of any renewables solution on a remote base-station site:

• The “PowerOasis Controller”, is a power controller that blends any combination of wind and solar renewable power sources with batteries and an optional backup generator to provide high availability, carrier-class power to off-grid base stations or to those connected to unreliable grids. It has been designed from the ground up for the mobile telecoms industry with features that include independent power supplies for the BTS and transmission, integration with the OMC alarming system and remote monitoring to verify renewable equipment health status and to collect power generation and consumption information.
• The “PowerOasis Manager” remote monitoring and control system that enables operators to efficiently maintain on-site power. Key drivers for the adoption of renewable energy for off-grid base stations are the high capital and operational costs of alternative solutions. Diesel generators can suffer from the high cost of diesel delivered to the site (high OPEX) whilst new grid connections are expensive and often incur long lead times (high CAPEX and lost revenue); the remoteness of most off-grid installations is a fundamental factor. It’s therefore essential that operators or their service providers can remotely monitor the status of deployed equipment and have the option to alter system configurations and apply firmware updates. The PowerOasis Manager communicates with multiple PowerOasis Controllers to collect data and provide near real time visualization of equipment status, power generation, storage and consumption within the base station.
• The “PowerOasis Planner” is a sophisticated suite of economic and technical modelling tools combined with industry leading consulting services that are able to identify base stations suitable for renewable power deployment, dimension the resulting equipment configurations and establish key performance indicators to benchmark effectiveness. An output from the model is the reduction in diesel usage which translates directly to improved CO2 emissions.

PowerOasis continues to invest in renewable power innovation through its research activities in partnership with local universities funded in part by winning a Carbon Trust Award.

Leader Profiles

Ivan Harris, Director and Chief Marketing Officer

Ivan is a senior manager with 26-years technical and commercial experience with both well established and start-up software and hardware businesses, including 9-years at executive and C-level. He is a commercially focused technologist with a proven track record developing and executing successful product and platform strategies in the computer games, enterprise software and mobile telecommunications industries. Prior to joining PowerOasis, Ivan was Chief Product Officer at Actix, a provider of Network Performance Engineering and Network Status Management products for network operators globally. Ivan is Chief Marketing Officer at PowerOasis and is responsible for defining product, service and partner engagement models and for ensuring that our offerings are driving growth for PowerOasis maximising value for mobile network operators.

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